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9/11What Would It Be Like to Be a Facebook User (Not a Facebook Hostage)?
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- cory doctorow, interoperability, facebook, interoperable facebook, design fiction
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In this video, we present a short "design fiction" explaining what it might be like to use social media in the near future, after big companies like Facebook were legally required to open up their walled gardens and let their users talk to anyone online, not just other Facebook users.
What if Facebook—and the other tech giants—were simply less important to your life? What if you had lots of choices about how you and the people you care about could communicate with each other?
Laws and proposed laws—like the EU Digital Markets Act and the US ACCESS Act—aim to make Big Tech platforms interoperable. That means that small companies, nonprofits, and community-run services will be able to connect to platforms like Facebook and everyone will be able exchange private messages and public posts, no matter which service they choose.
But how would that work? What would life be like on an "interoperable Facebook?"
Learn more at https://eff.org/interoperablefacebook, including an extended version of this video, the text of the narration and a PDF ebook of the article it's based on.
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Produced by the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Written and narrated by Cory Doctorow
Graphics and production by Shirin Mori
Sound design, mastering and music by John Taylor Williams, Wryneck Studios
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